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#! perl -slw
use strict;

chomp( my @lines = <DATA> );
my $lastLine = shift @lines;
my( $lastRoot, $lastVer ) = $lastLine =~ m[(^[^0-9]+)([0-9.-]+)];
$lastVer = pack 'C*', $lastVer =~ m[(\d+)+]g;

for my $line ( @lines ) {
    my( $root, $ver ) = $line =~ m[(^[^0-9]+)([0-9\.-]+)];
    $ver = pack 'C*', $ver =~ m[(\d+)+]g;

    if( $root eq $lastRoot ) {
        if( $ver gt $lastVer ) {
            $lastVer = $ver;
            $lastLine = $line;
        }
    }
    else {
        print $lastLine;
        $lastRoot = $root;
        $lastVer = $ver;
        $lastLine = $line
    }
}
print $lastLine;

__DATA__
samba-common-libs-4.2.10-6.2.el7_2.x86_64
samba-common-libs-4.2.10-8.el7_2.x86_64
samba-common-libs-4.2.12-7.el7_2.x86_64
samba-common-libs-4.2.10-6.el7_2.x86_64
samba-common-libs-4.2.10-3.el7_2.x86_64
xyz-libs-4.2.10-7.el7_2.x86_64
xyz-libs-4.2.12-7.el7_2.x86_64
xyz-libs-4.2.13-7.el7_2.x86_64
xyz-libs-4.2.11-7.el7_2.x86_64
abc-4.2.11-7.el7_2.x86_64
abc-4.2.11-8.el7_2.x86_64
abc-4.2.11-6.el7_2.x86_64

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Output:

C:\test>1173958
samba-common-libs-4.2.12-7.el7_2.x86_64
xyz-libs-4.2.13-7.el7_2.x86_64
abc-4.2.11-8.el7_2.x86_64

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